Definition of Dictatorship

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Definition of Dictatorship
	Dictatorship The office, or the term of office, of a dictator; hence, absolute power. Related Definitions: Absolute, Dictator, Hence, Of, Office, Or, Power, Term, The

Dictatorship Quotations

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Plato

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
George Orwell

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
George Orwell

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
Noam Chomsky

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.
George W. Bush

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
Niels Bohr

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
Harry S. Truman

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
Victor Hugo

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.
Richard Branson

Dictatorship Translations

dictatorship in Dutch is dictatuur
dictatorship in French is dictature
dictatorship in German is Diktatur
dictatorship in Spanish is dictadura
dictatorship in Swedish is diktatur

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